India, B’desh settle boundary disputeNeighbours sign nine more pacts, but no agreement on sharing of Teesta watersDhaka, September 6India and Bangladesh today signed a slew of agreements and resolved their long-standing boundary dispute, but failed to ink any water-sharing deal.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina during his welcome at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Tuesday. — PTI

Amar
Singh arrested in cash-for-vote scamNew Delhi, September 6Former
Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh was today arrested and sent
to Tihar Jail for his alleged involvement in bribing three MPs to
support Manmohan Singh.Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh arrives to appear in Tis Hazari court in connection with the cash-for-vote scam in New Delhi. — PTI

SGPC POLL ROW
Can only file affidavit on Home Ministry’s behalf: ChidambaramNew Delhi, September 6
Even as the controversy raged around how and why senior counsel Harbhagwan Singh stated in the Punjab and Haryana High Court recently that the Centre had decided to rescind the 2003 notification barring Sehajdhari Sikhs from participating in the SGPC elections, the Home Minister today said he had made the position of his ministry clear in the matter.

TRIBUNE IMPACT
Centre seeks report on mining in Punjab ShivaliksChandigarh, September 6
Even as the Ropar administration got into action to stop illegal mining going on in the Nurpur Bedi area, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has taken cognisance of the news report published in The Tribune, regarding razing of hillocks in the lower Shivalik range by illegal miners.

Delhi can’t host Champions Trophy: FIHNew Delhi, September 6
The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has shifted the Champions Trophy out of Delhi in protest against the working merger of the Indian Hockey Federation
(IHF) with Hockey India, forged at the behest of the Sports Ministry. As a consequence, the FIH has also barred India's participation in the Champions Trophy.

MiG-21 crashes near
Rajpura, pilot safeShambhu (Rajpura/Patiala), September 6In a miraculous escape, a young Indian Air Force
(IAF) pilot sustained minor injuries after a MiG-21 combat aircraft crashed into a farm
land.

The wreckage of the MiG-21 aircraft that crashed in a paddy field near Shambhu toll barrier in Rajpura on Tuesday morning. Tribune photo: JS Virdi

Ball of fire scares villagersShambhu (Rajpura), September 6
“The clouds opened and poured fire instead of rain,” explained a terrified car driver, an eyewitness to the MiG crash that left a deep crater in this sleepy village near
Rajpura. It was a cloudy Tuesday morning when an unusual sound from the skies jolted the villagers out of their slumber. They ran out of their homes and were horrified to see the smouldering aircraft wreckage strewn in the fields.